To Know a River: A Haig-Brown Reader Book

	Introduction	ix
I	Knowing Rivers
1	To Know a River ...	3
2	The Nature of Estuaries	13
3	Summer Defined	19
4	from Thoughts While Fishing	23
II	The Fishing
	English Trout
5	April (A River Never Sleeps)	33
6	September	39
7	Blackhole	49
	Trout
8	Buttle Lake	57
9	from On the Water & in the Mail	65
10	Garden Party Day	69
11	The Beaverkill	75
	Trout and Salmon
12	Nimpkish River	83
13	Patterns and Problems	91
14	Perfect Morning	99
	Salmon
15	The Beaches	105
16	from Big Fish and Fresh Water	111
	Steelhead
17	The Day Everything Happened	121
18	Speed and Stamina	127
19	Steelhead and the Dry Fly--Further Notes	135
20	An Ideal Stream	141
21	The Unexpected Fish	149
22	The Fish by the Cedar Stump	157
	Grayling
23	Poisson Bleu--the Flower of Fishes	163
	Chilean Trout
24	The Laja River	169
25	The Start of the South--the Cautin River	177
26	The Tolten	181
27	from Water of Liucura and Trancura	187
28	The Beach of the Deer	197
29	The Last River	207
III	The Salmon
30	Drawn by the Current	213
31	Fall Defined	223
32	The Death of the Salmon	229
33	from At Winter's Edge	237
IV	The Art of Fishing
34	from The Art of Fishing	245
35	Fly Types	249
36	On Casting	257
37	The New Rod	261
38	The Maculate Purist	267
V	Underwater
39	The Secret Life	273
40	Thoughts Under Water	277
41	from Return of the Salmon	283
VI	Birds, Trees and Children
42	Recognizing Birds	291
43	April (Measure of the Year)	295
44	June	299
45	Trees	303
46	August--the Big Fir	313
47	Northward Geese	317
48	Family Sortie	321
49	Children	327
VII	Philosophy and Conservation
50	The People's Right to Good Fishing	337
51	Less Time Between Bites	347
52	Fishing and the Common Man	355
53	Putting Fish Back	359
54	What Is Good?	365